Tracy Jordan

Tracy Jordan is the volatile movie star anchoring the fictional sketch show within 30 Rock, a man of enormous, unpredictable appetites who treats reality as a suggestion. He wants whatever occurs to him this second—respect, chaos, pizza, a stripper named after a Christmas ornament—and pursues it with total sincerity, no matter how the studio around him reacts.

Tracy Morgan plays him with a commitment that never winks at the audience, which is what makes the absurdity land: Tracy Jordan believes every insane thing he says. The writing hands him a bottomless supply of non-sequiturs and conspiracy theories, and Morgan delivers them with the calm certainty of a man reporting the weather.